The point is that they want the simple UX of "ssh vm1.box1.tld" takes you to the same machine that browsing to vm1.box1.tld takes you to, without requiring their users to set any additional configuration.

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bfivyvysj 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You can have that already? It's just dns. Are you saying different vms share the same box1 ip? Well then yeah, you want a reverse proxy on some shared ip.

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dwedge 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Well then yeah, you want a reverse proxy on some shared ip.

At that point you run into the problem that SSH doesn't have a host header and write this blog post.

	▲	bfivyvysj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, ftp has the same issue depending on implementation.